Book on samba

[jkinz at rcn.com]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:35:59AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 jkinz at rcn.com wrote:
> =>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:26:31AM -0500, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> =>> I need to recommend an entry level book on samba.  Any suggestions,
> =>> positive or negative, would be appreciated.
> =>> 
> =>As always - the O'Reilly books have an excellent reference.
> =>And Bookpool.com usually has the lowest prices.
> =>38% off in this case.
> =>
> =>http://www.bookpool.com/.x/ef5ocrv20i/sm/1565924495
> 
> Another excellent book is Linux Samba Server Admin by Roderick W. Smith 
> (Craig Hunt Linux Library). Also 39% off at bookpool.
> 
> When there's a Hunt book to choose over O'Reilly I *usually* do much 
> better.
^^^^^^^^
I notice that the table of contents of the Sybex Samba book is almost 
an exact copy of of the the O'Reilly Samba book.  

The O'Reilly Samba book has been adopted by the Samba development 
group as the offical Samba book.  Its also cheaper and you can preview
the entire book on-line.   O'Reilly $21.50, Sybex $24.50

My experience with Sybex books over the years is that you pay a lot,
you get a lot of paper, but little information.  In the past the ones
I have seen tended towards the "See Dick run. Run, Dick, run." approach
to documentation.  I.e.  Lots of space is used on screen shots and "Now
click on "X". type of information.  Sometimes that info is useful but
in my experience it makes it so hard to find out anything useful that I
have written off Sybex books as a waste of time.  (They may have changed,
nothing stays the same forever, expecially in a competitive market.)

I would like a chance to preview the contents of the Sybex book just
to give it a fairer evaluation.  Anybody know if some sample chapters
are online somewhere?   (O'Reilly does this for all their books at the
"ora.com" website.)

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